CVE-2017-8181
Official description Straight from the sourceThe vendor's or NVD's own wording, published unedited. Authoritative, but often terse — it says what broke, rarely what to do.
NVD · uneditedThe camera driver of MTK platform in Huawei smart phones with software of versions earlier than Nice-AL00C00B155 has a arbitrary memory write vulnerability.Due to the insufficient input verification, an attacker tricks a user into installing a malicious application which has special privilege and sends a specific parameter to the driver of the smart phone, causing privilege escalation.
Technical summary Written by usOur analysis, written from the advisory, the CVSS vector and the affected-version data. It adds context the advisory leaves out, and never invents facts that are not in the source.
dbcve analysis · high confidenceArbitrary memory write vulnerability in the MTK platform camera driver on Huawei smartphones. A malicious application with special privileges can send specific parameters to the camera driver, bypassing input validation and writing to arbitrary memory locations, enabling privilege escalation.
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Affected products & versions What the vendor confirmedThe version ranges the vendor confirmed as vulnerable. If your version sits inside a range here, treat yourself as exposed until you have upgraded.
NVD · CPE data< nice-al00c00b155CVSS breakdown How the score is builtThe industry scoring standard. It rates how the flaw is reached, what it takes to exploit, and what an attacker gains — the score is derived from those, not the other way round.
From the vector- Attack vector
- Local
- Complexity
- Low
- Privileges
- None
- User interaction
- Required
- Scope
- Unchanged
- Confidentiality
- High
- Integrity
- High
- Availability
- High
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Am I affected? How to checkSteps we derive from the advisory and the affected-version data, so you can decide whether this CVE reaches your setup. They are a guide, not a scan — your own configuration is the authority.
dbcve checksWork through these to decide whether this CVE applies to you.
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Check your Huawei smartphone modelGo to Settings > About Phone (or Settings > System > About Device) and note the model number and device nameAffected if You must have a Huawei smartphone for this CVE to apply
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Confirm MTK platform chipsetCheck your device specifications or use a system info app to verify the device uses a MediaTek (MTK) chipset - this information is typically listed in the processor or chipset section of device specsAffected if The device must use an MTK (MediaTek) platform processor for this specific camera driver vulnerability to exist
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Determine the firmware versionIn Settings > About Phone > Version (or Build Number), read the full firmware version string displayed - this shows the currently installed Huawei software versionAffected if The exact version string varies by device but will be a build number like NICE-AL00C00B155 or similar for Huawei devices
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Compare version against affected rangeCompare your installed firmware version to the affected version threshold: any version below nice-al00c00b155 is within the vulnerable rangeAffected if Your installed firmware version is less than nice-al00c00b155 (for example, nice-al00c00b150 or any earlier build)
You are affected if you have a Huawei smartphone with an MTK platform chipset running firmware version lower than nice-al00c00b155.
Generated from the published advisory. Verify against your own configuration.
Remediation Closing itWhat it takes to close this. Where a vendor fix exists we point at it; where none exists we say so plainly, and can build one. Effort estimates are scoped from the advisory, not from your codebase.
From vendor dataUpdate affected Huawei smartphone software to version Nice-AL00C00B155 or later to obtain the vendor patch addressing the camera driver input validation flaw.
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- Review / QA6.0 h
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References Go to the primary sourcePrimary sources — vendor advisories, patches and trackers. Where our summary and a reference disagree, the reference wins.
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